Marin General Hospital Is Committed To Helping The Community
Provided Programs
Marin General Hospital contributed $18.8 million (6.91 percent of net patient revenues) in support of 54 community programs and services that benefited 5,266 people in 2007. The majority of this spending was for charity care and un-reimbursed care.
The unpaid cost for Medi-Cal was $10.5 million and $1.5 million for Medically Indigent Adults. Traditional charity care amounted to another $2.1 million.
The hospital sponsored a variety of programs and services in 2007, including financial contributions and in-kind donations of staff services to the Healthy Marin Partnership, free and low cost public education seminars and support groups for breast and prostate cancer patients.
Here is the complete list of programs and services provided by the hospital in 2005.
Medical Care Services
- Marin Community Clinic, outpatient services and rent subsidy
- Acute psychiatric and partial hospitalization for adult poor and elderly
- Free cancer screenings
- Infant massage instruction
Other Benefits for Vulnerable Populations
- Healthy Marin Partnership, financial donation and in-kind donation of staff services
- Equipment donations
- Marin Interfaith Council Board of Directors
- Mammography for low-income women
- Phoenix Academy therapeutic program
- Support groups for cancer patients, cancer survivors and families
- Support group for breastfeeding
- Breast Cancer and Lymphedema Recovery Workshops
- Expressive arts workshops, classes, exhibits and demonstrations
- Prenatal information and referral, and five-week class series
- Transportation and maternity tour of MGH for Hispanic women
- Breast cancer outreach programs (Race For The Cure, Stepping Out Gala)
- Medi-Cal, Healthy Families and CMSP application assistance
- Blood drives
Other Benefits for the Broader Community
- Public education seminars (free or low-cost) included those on advances in orthopedics, heart disease, breast cancer, women and heart disease, childbirth and infant care
- Breast health, pain management, health education, counseling and information center
- Support group referral and hotline
- Breast health hotline
- Prostate health hotline
- Penny's Promise and Marilyn’s Fund
- Speaking engagements to community groups on various health topics
- Cancer Resource & Recovery Center
- Participation (booth) at Marin County Senior Fair
- Medical library open to the public
- Meeting space for community groups
Health Research, Education, and Training
- Nursing education (baccalaureate and master’s levels) preceptorships for College of Marin and Dominican University
- Participation in continuing education with Countywide emergency medical system
- School-to-Career program
- Oncology clinical research
- Institutional Review Board
- National Youth Leadership Forum on Medicine (one of several field sites)
Operation Access
- Operation Access collaborates with surgeons, pathologists, radiologists and other medical professionals at Marin General Hospital to provide donated outpatient surgical care to uninsured people in our community. Operation Access is a network of 60 community clinics, 16 other participating hospitals, and over 300 medical volunteers serving the six county Bay area. To find out more about Operation Access, go to www.operationaccess.org.